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Explorer’s Guide to Impact Craters

  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Impact Crater Virtual Tours
  • Barringer Crater
  • Haughton Impact Structure
  • Ries Impact Structure
  • Hellas Basin (Mars)
  • Simulations
  • Impact Rocks
  • Impact Rock Kits
  • Ask an Expert
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Barringer Crater Tour

  • Getting to Barringer Crater
  • Virtual Tour of Barringer Crater
  • Barringer Tour: Visitor Center
  • Barringer – Stop 1
  • Barringer – Stop 2
  • Barringer – Stop 3
  • Barringer – Stop 4
  • Barringer – Stop 5
  • Barringer – Stop 6
  • Barringer – Stop 7
  • Barringer – Stop 8
  • Barringer – Stop 9
  • Barringer – Stop 10
  • Barringer – Stop 11
  • Barringer – Stop 12
  • Barringer – Stop 13
  • Barringer – Stop 14
  • Barringer – Stop 15
  • Barringer – Stop 16
  • Barringer – Stop 17

Stop 17 at Barringer

A large block of Kaibab limestone
Photo: G. Osinski, University of Western Ontario Location: On the crater floor below the northern crater wall
Scale: Height of the person is approximately 1.5 meters

Geologist Gordon Osinski examines a large block of Kaibab limestone

STOP 16  | TOUR START & VISITOR CENTER

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